Title: RE: [t13] ATAPI Overlap and Queuing
Until we get a newer form of command queuing into ATA-8 it makes no sense to obsolete the only currently documented method of command queuing. (Which I still believe should happen)


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Sent: Tue 12/7/2004 5:25 PM
To: Hale Landis; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [t13] ATAPI Overlap and Queuing

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Remember folks: Obsolete and removed only means that no further work is going to be done on these commands.  Not that they can no longer be used (i.e. CHS... Its obsolete, but all the desktop HDDs still support it -:)

Jeff

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>Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:53 PM
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>Subject: RE: [t13] ATAPI Overlap and Queuing
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>On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:42:21 -0800, Mark Overby wrote:
>>This message is from the T13 list server.
>>I can firmly state that there are at least two host
>controllers on the
>>market that support command queuing for ATA devices in hardware.
>
>OK, then I would agree that O/Q should not be removed for
>either PATA ATA or ATAPI devices.
>
>But this is such a mess...
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>* Old style O/Q maybe supported by some PATA ATA devices and
>maybe by some PATA ATAPI devices (MKE note: The PACKET command
>supports old style PATA O/Q. Note everyone: The R/W DMA QUEUED
>commands are the PATA O/Q commands for for ATA devices).
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>* Is old style O/Q supported by SATA for SATA ATA or SATA
>ATAPI devices? Is there any reason old style O/Q can not be
>made obsolete for SATA?
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>* Is new style queuing (is that NCQ?) supported for SATA
>ATAPI? If so, what changes have been made for this (new
>version of the PACKET command, or new options of the PACKET
>command)? Is there a definition of new style queuing (NCQ?)
>for SATA ATAPI? If not, why not?
>
>Hale
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>*** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
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